President Donald Trump issued a foreboding proclamation during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, just hours after he predicted a “Midterm Surprise!” in a Truth Social post.
“Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, who’s fantastic, he’s on a job, we have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ?” Trump said. “He’s gonna be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion. He’s got some great things happening.”
Trump did not expand on what these so-called “surprises” would be.
Outside his role in the Trump administration, Vought is the primary architect of Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term.
While not mentioned specifically by Trump, many critics online speculated that Trump was referring to some sort of plan to interfere in the midterm elections.
“Between this and his ‘midterm surprise,’ the time to prepare for him to try to steal an election is now,” Fox News host Jessica Tarlov wrote on X.
Other commenters suggested that Vought could use his official capacity to interfere with the elections.
“I know nothing about Project 2025”
-Trump, 2024
In other words:
Stay tuned for his next totally illegal, but totally allowed grift of what’s left on American democracy.
He raped kids. Lady Justice is not off-limits.
Americans will reward you for raping kids and kill you for defending them
Our legal system is broken. He should have gone to jail in the 90s over his rape cases. 13 times he’d been in court well before he was president over rape. Our justice system failed to hold him accountable. He shouldn’t have his wealth either. All the shady real estate deals with with Russia and the blatant money laundering that was. Oh sure he bought properties for a few million and a Russian ‘investor’ buys them for 10s of millions a few years later. Not sus at all.
A literal coup, seizing voting machines and denying results, arresting Democratic candidates who won their elections. We’ve already established that the law and the constitution means nothing to this administration so everything is on the table.
Good thing all those second amendment fanatics are politically literate, right?
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Don’t forget banning international voting oversight. I have no confidence in your election results.
That’s why he did it, because he will question the outcome and international observers won’t be able to say they didn’t see anything. Our elections are heavily decentralized so it’s genuinely hard to mess with them at scale.
Can’t states invite them themselves?
Why would they need OMB for that? To me it sounds much more like they’re thing to fuck with the FCC, FEC, and/or the post office.
Here’s a quick summary of what I think he is gonna do.
- Declare a state of emergency in order to prevent the midterms.
- if step 1 doesn’t happen then he will have armed guards at as many polling stations as possible, especially in blue/poor states.
- when the republicans are hopefully defeated in the midterms he will cry foul and that the democrats cheated. Calling for another January 6th across the nation.
- regardless of the outcome Donny will then invaded Iran.
- going into the Christmas holiday or the beginning of 2027 he will try to get the Supreme Court to give him the right to run a 3rd term.
- when that doesn’t happen (fingers crossed) he will still run for a 3rd term anyway.
Good write up, but you left out the false flag terrorist attack that will allow him to declare a state of emergency.
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hmmmmmm I wonder who they are going to frame?
Is this a south park episode
Or, the speaker of the house appoints a different House Clerk and he/she doesn’t call the newly elected members to order due to " fraudulent elections"
You are correct I forgot that part!
Yeah. Wouldn’t want a foot-gun.
And banned International elections oversight. Oh, ice handed voter rolls to thiel… Oh ya. I have Russian levels of trust in your elections.
even beforehand voting machines weren’t audited and their software is very bad. and decades before that people just bought votes. it’s a shit mountain built into a different, older, more respectable shit mountain
The important point: Republicans aren’t leaving office regardless of what happens.
Well, not willingly perhaps.
It would make my fuckin year if they don’t.
Yes.
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Yes definitely, I think he will play a part in step 2.
he’s the loser nobody wanted along but he’s paying for everything so they let him come too.
He doesn’t need Russ Vought for any of this.
For the #1, I think “Iran” will attack Los Angeles and San Diego.
Also Republicans will replace the clerk with a MAGA person and he will refuse call new winners in January.
Since this is Vough this is definitively one of things he planned.
Don’t underestimate the power of cholesterol.
He’s gonna live to be at least 102
- Donny dies…
I genuinely don’t see him invading Iran. It’s a guaranteed belly-flop. Much more likely he continues pretending the US already won.
Bibi will wave the tape, and then he will.
I don’t think so. It’s not as if longstanding, bipartisan US policy isn’t antagonistic towards Iran for its own reasons. I do think Bibi helped coax Trump into actually bombing Iran by giving him a rosy assessment, but even Trump won’t fall for that twice.
I hope you are right, ofcourse. But things are getting so unpredictable and illogical that I really don’t know what to expect.
I hear ya. What actually worries me is if Europe decides to involve itself militarily. I think the chance is slim, but that’s the only way I could see any attempted invasion of Iran. They are in a very tight spot with energy, and they seem to be 100% against negotiating with Russia, while also 100% unable (or unwilling) to influence Trump regarding Iran. Hard to imagine they could dedicate any military resources towards Iran though, considering what they already send to Ukraine, or want to deter Russia with. Still, as winter comes and fuel costs rise, something will have to give.
No, Iran invasion is pure fantasy. Europe can’t change that equation, not enough troops to spare and they’re not really built to fight outside of Europe in large numbers. Iran will need millions of soldiers committed. The US barely has 400,000 combat soldiers.
For instance how are they even going to get the border of Iran? They can’t go in from Pakistan or Central Asia and the US Navy is a hollowed out enshitified joke, so doing a naval invasion is even more absurd.
So they’ll have to invade and secure Iraq just to set the stage for an invasion of Iran. And that’s assuming they could defeat a combined Iran-Iraqi force. But how are they going to build up an invasion force? 2003 Iraq Invasion force took a year to build and that was in peaceful conditions with full control of the gulf and had intact bases.
The most that they can hope for is trying to take and hold the Islands in the strait. Which will fail and fail hard because Iran has had months and months prepare for it where as the US hasn’t committed a single soldier to combat and yet it’s logistics are at the breaking point and it’s defensive munitions are already spent! Trillion dollars a year well spent!
Militarily, the US is a barely a shadow of what it was just 20 years ago. It’s been thoroughly Russified.
I agree with pretty much everything you say here, but the last sentence.
I think we are safe there, as they will need at least 20 years to decide on that.
Remember when he claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025? Yeah I know a mother fucker dumb enough to have believed that
My narcissistic ex, literally. Dumb as a fucking rock.
We all have that uncle.
This is FALSE because Donald Trump TOLD ME he DIDNT know what Project 2025 was!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!
Dude, I knew “both sides are the same” types at my work who fucking bought that. My gasts were flabbered.
“Well, our Democratic governor took away our plastic grocery bags and last summer, suggested that people in big cities turn their AC down to avoid brown outs, so I’m OK with whatever Republicans can do to fix those things.” - My low information voting family.
Time to take the kid gloves off and call these idiots out. Being this stupid should have a negative effect of some kind.
It does, just not directly oh them just yet
That is next-level entitlement. Man…. I’m sorry.
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“I don’t know what Project 2025 is.”
- Donald J. Trump
Oh, the project 2025 he had no idea about?
The P25 that the current VP wrote the forward to when it was published as a fucking book?
The same P25 he said the only agenda he has is Project 47?
Yes, that exact one that stated they were going to hack n slash Medicare/Medicaid (which they did), install a bunch of “loyalists” (which they did), eliminate the Dept of Education (which they’ve been slowly doing), eliminate unions and worker protections (which theyve been chipping away at)…
VOTE.
YES, the mid term elections are ongoing RIGHT NOW in the USA. If you’re a US citizen and you haven’t voted yet then do it, early voting is happening soon* check your state.
And even better - use an official ballot drop box instead of mailing it, as there’s still the possibility of USPS fuckery.
Ooops more treason! Surprise!!
Based on comments by vought, I’m guessing national abortion ban.
Hopefully it turns out to be the release of some new Trump-branded schlock people can buy directly from whitehouse.gov and everyone will just be like “of course.”
He most likely will try, but it’s Trump. His track record speaks for itself: he will fuck it up. Bigly.
He will probably cancel the midterms with an executive order. Doesn’t seem like there is any limit to what he can do with executive orders. Why would a democratic government allow for such power in a single person? Didn’t anybody think those powers would be abused? Might as well be a dictator 🙄. Seems so ridiculous.
Watch Americans do nothing, if y’all do nothing when Donald’s nulifyed the election, nobody is going to respect what you say or do anymore, no matter what. You think euros are annoying now making fun of you, just wait until Donald trys nullifying states rights.
Most of us agree with you, We’ve had protests; we just haven’t dialed it up to France.
outside of a general strike, nothing will change, no chance of that happening until he nulls the midterms, slim chance after that.
France is geographically smaller than the state of Texas.
yet it has twice as many people
Sure. I’m just trying to be a realistic reminder that the United States is massive compared to Europe. There are states larger than plenty of European countries, and as you say, with less population. Not sure how anyone expects anything to come together productively outside of exercising your right to vote. A general strike requires coordination that can be intercepted and manipulated at a national scale. People need to vote.
I don’t have a lot of confidence that the vote will be counted and fair.
I also worry about his ominous project 2025 statement
We did noting when we found out he raped children. Complacency is support.
Yeah dude at least Europe finally cut down on buying arms from the US.
How is that important for this discussion? You’re just changing the subject
You have much to learn young padawan.
Well clearly not from you, you can’t even stick to the subject.
Euros should stfu and clean up their own house. The hypocrisy of telling us we don’t do anything while they actively elect their own fascists is fucking astounding.
Same to you Canadians. You were two months away from electing a fascist moron until Trump started making threats but you act so smug about it now. Yeah turns out that when the fascism is aimed at you instead of Indian immigrants it isn’t so great, is it?
More complaining and finger pointing. 🙄
